Re: possible deadlock in open_rio

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Aug 07 2019 - 09:37:30 EST


Am Dienstag, den 06.08.2019, 15:13 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, syzbot wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following crash on:
> >
> > HEAD commit: 7f7867ff usb-fuzzer: main usb gadget fuzzer driver
> > git tree: https://github.com/google/kasan.git usb-fuzzer
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=136b6aec600000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=792eb47789f57810
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ======================================================
> > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > 5.3.0-rc2+ #23 Not tainted
> > ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Andrey:
>
> This should be completely reproducible, since it's a simple ABBA
> locking violation. Maybe just introducing a time delay (to avoid races
> and give the open() call time to run) between the gadget creation and
> gadget removal would be enough to do it.

Hi,

technically yes. However in practical terms the straight revert I sent
out yesterday should fix it.

Regards
Oliver